Degree Programs - Associate Degrees of the University

Overview
The Associate degree of the University is issued with an action learning designation approved by the Common Multinational Professional & Academic Board that reflects the major portion of the successful candidate's learning. The post-nominal designation of A-Revans University (Action Learning Designation) is authorized for use.

The Associate degree represents the second year of a Bachelors program and can be completed in fifteen to eighteen months.

Degree Credits
Credits are awarded on the basis of workload, depth of study and outputs required. For this reason, not all courses carry the same credit weights.

Minimum Grade Requirements
To achieve the Associate degree of the University applicants must earn 60 undergraduate Bachelor credits with a minimum of 60 per cent for each course completed and a passing grade of at least 70 per cent for all courses taken.

Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning
A maximum of 50 per cent of the 60 required credits for the Associate degree may be earned by transfer or a combination of transfer and validated experiential credits. No more than 25 per cent of the required credits may be for documented workplace experience. This document must be formally presented for its learning outcomes and evaluated for credit by the University.

Admission Requirements

• High school diploma or its demonstrated equivalent. Where a high school diploma or equivalent is necessarily demonstrated, the University's "Global Centre for Credit Mapping and Accreditation of Prior Experience & Learning (GLOCCEM)" provides guidelines and facilitation.
   
• A minimum of two years of workplace experience or work in specific professional areas.
   
• The minimum age of entry is twenty years.
   
• All candidates must demonstrate that they have earned 30 undergraduate level credits at accredited institutions for entry to the Associate degree program. A minimum of 15 of these credits must include a representative collection of general education credits. No more than 25 per cent of the required credits may be for documented workplace experience

Credits are awarded on the basis of workload, depth of study and outputs required. For this reason, not all courses carry the same credit weights.

Course Descriptions

Accounting for Management: Identifies the broad areas involved in the financial and accounting side of management and the basics of the accounting process. Associates will learn to produce sound financial reports, understand and use correct accounting terminology and work with the methods for accumulating data for producing financial reports.

Interpersonal Communications: Upon completion of this course, Associates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the processes involved in effective interpersonal communication and apply the concepts, methods and tools acquired in real workplace and personal situations.

New Venture Management: Examines why entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship are really two sides of the same coin. The Associate will be able to describe the 'business opportunity tripod' and its setting out of strategic direction supported by the three legs of marketing, operations, and administration. The course also investigates how both the human and financial resource requirements are considered in launching new ventures and how to produce business plans that are tailored to fit the particular needs of new ventures.

Organizational Behavior: The course will enable Associates to describe and work effectively with the fundamentals of organizational behavior and organizational culture in a wide variety of settings, and how to integrate personal thinking about organizational behavior with good systems thinking.

Effective Supervision: Associates will be able to define the nature of supervision, its role, responsibilities, and its range of authority within an organization. This course will carefully examine the managerial functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling and evaluating, and their relation to the daily job of the supervisor. Identifying the human aspects of supervision, including motivation, leadership and ethics will be an integral part of the coursework.

Human Resources Management: Associates will learn to identify the issues and measures involved in effective managerial performance and set out or provide productive and relevant opportunities for self-improvement. This course will teach the application sound human resources management skills as it relates to the development of organizational units of various sizes.

Business Policy and Planning: Associates will learn how to integrate the role of management with the strategic management process and identify the key concepts of management decision-making. This course will describe the planning process and elaborate on the strategic management process. Associates will learn to evaluate and analyze the organization using a variety of planning tools and techniques.

Management Principles and Practices: Associates will learn to manage others more effectively, exercise the classic management functions of preparing, planning, organizing, communicating, leading, and motivating and how to provide leadership in a highly flexible way, keeping in mind the needs and differences of individual people within the organization. They will also develop skills in coping effectively with change in the immediate workplace and in the organization and understand the position of the manager in the organization from the point of view of responsibility and operational requirements.

Problem Solving and Decision Making: Upon completion of this course the Associate will be able to apply situation appraisal to on-going, day-to-day management of information typical of a manager's responsibilities; problem analysis to specific projects and in the areas of daily, periodic or unplanned deviations; and decision analysis to arrive at a balanced choice based on satisfaction and risks and to detail a decision specification.

Marketing Fundamentals: This course enables Associates to develop different strategies for marketing such as objective and complete marketing research, marketing planning, dealing effectively with consumers either individually or as organizations from a sound marketing perspective. On completion Associates will also understand consumer behaviors, including their actual perceptions of product or service value. Marketing distribution, promotional planning and pricing will also be covered.